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to get those welfare benefits, you have to go through bureaucratic hell. Many don't do it because you have to give up some freedom to get those benefits.
by mempko 9y ago
to get those welfare benefits, you have to go through bureaucratic hell. Many don't do it because you have to give up some freedom to get those benefits.
- gwright 9y agoFair point, but also a different point. I also suspect it is a tiny number of people out of the "41 million". Even with a low-friction delivery of government services some people will opt-out on principle. I have several acquaintances that live in poverty if you only count cash income but they are living on their own terms and certainly wouldn't describe themselves as "living in poverty".